"We're not surprised by that," the mayor said. "We're as low as we can be. We've got to make sure we understand that we need the state. There are some people who think we don't need the state on that side of the question at all."

On Detroit's future, Bing talked about taking a step back to move forward. Much of it begins with reform, which is not coming easy.

"We just need to stop having all this infighting here in the city, at the state level," Bing said. "Because in the end we still have to fix a broken city, and that's what I'm going to focus on."

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